"As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child"

-- Charles E. Burchfield

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“We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what God says, not what you say. Man shall not sleep with man, woman shall not sleep with woman.”

Source : Associated Press Interview, December 2003.
“He scooped up Victoria practically before she hit the ground, well within the five-second rule. If she'd been a potato chip, he could have still eaten her. Not something I particularly wanted to contemplate.”
“I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'”

Source : "Jonah Hill: 'People think I'm a horny, foul-mouthed teenager. But I'm 26 and very ambitious'". Interview With Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.
“If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.”
“I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.”
“It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it awakens are independent of time and place, because its kingdom is not of this world. To those who have and hold a sense of the significance of form what does it matter whether the forms that move them were created in Paris the day before yesterday or in Babylon fifty centuries ago? The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.”
“When in doubt, figure it out. That's the redneck way.”
“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”

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